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There were 47 graphics chip makers in 1998. Where did they all go?

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There were 47 graphics chip makers in 1998. Where did they all go?
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Some may find this hard to believe, given the absolute state of the market today, but if you were building a gaming PC in 1998, the hard part wasn’t finding somewhere that had 3D cards in stock for a reasonable price. It was choosing the right one among a glut of potential, reasonably affordable options.
In 1998, 47 companies were designing or selling PC graphics, driving a market that hit 130 million units and outsold PCs themselves. Just two years later, at the turn of the new millennium, only

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